Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Grove City College/FREN 332 (Sp20)

The goal of this French course is to familiarize students with the vibrant literary scene in French-speaking regions outside of Europe, with an emphasis on the Caribbean, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Award-winning authors studied this semester include Maryse Condé, Léonora Miano, Scholastique Mukasonga, and Kaouther Adimi. To contribute to the knowledge of the general public, each student will translate a French Wikipedia page about an author, novel, or literary movement into English.

Week 3
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the &quot;Get Help&quot; button on this page.

To get started, please review the following handouts:


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia


 * Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (To avoid hitting Wikipedia's account creation limits, this is best done outside of class. Only 6 new accounts may be created per day from the same IP address.)
 * It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
 * When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.

Week 4

 * Choose two articles (a first choice, and a backup) to translate into English. You are not limited to the list of suggested articles. Post the article links on your talk page, and submit them to the instructor for review.
 * Complete any remaining training modules from last week.
 * Once your instructor has approved one or both of your choices, finalize your choice of which article to translate.


 * Copy your article from the target-language Wikipedia into your sandbox.
 * Begin to translate your work.

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Supplementary trainings:


 * Sources and Citations
 * Sandboxes and Mainspace

Week 5

 * Continue to translate your work.

Week 6

 * Discussion of fact-checking translated work, finding English-language sources.

Week 7

 * Move sandbox articles into main space.
 * If you are expanding an existing article, it's time to add your revised translation (including English sources, when available). Copy your edit into the article. If you are making many small edits, save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article. Be sure to check the article's talk page and respond to suggestions from Wikipedians. Don't panic if your edits are removed or changed! Discuss it civilly on the article's talk page, and make a note of it for your report or presentation about your editing experience.
 * If you are creating a new article, do NOT copy and paste your text, or there will be no record of your work history. Follow instruction on the &quot;Moving out of your sandbox&quot; handout.
 * In your first edit to the article namespace, include a link of the source article (i.e., the article you translated) in the &quot;edit summary&quot; before hitting &quot;save.&quot;
 * Copy the code to the bottom of the Wikipedia article, replacing es with the language code of the language you a translating from and replacing Page Title with the title of the source page.

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Handout:

Week 11
Keep up with any feedback or suggested edits to your article. If any of your edits were deleted, review why, and see if you can submit additional sources to support your information.

Week 13
Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.